First Lava Jato whistleblower among those arrested in Portugal in the case of the drug plane
According to the Brazilian press, Nelma Kodama was detained as part of Operation Descobrimento, which aims to dismantle a criminal organization involved in the international trafficking of purses.
43 search and seizure warrants and preventive arrest warrants in the Brazilian states of Bahia, São Paulo, Mato Grosso, Rondônia and Pernambuco.
In Portugal, the PJ and three searches by two police officers carried out in Portugal and preventive arrest warrants in Porto and Braga.
A source from the Brazilian Federal Police told Lusa that the “two prisoners in Portugal are Brazilian”.
Nelma Kodama was the first Lava Jato whistleblower and was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2014 for the crime of money laundering. Her prison sentence ended, however, in 2017, thanks to a pardon decreed by the then Brazilian president, Michel Temer.
The Brazilian company supplied in Portugal20 Falcon that started on February 9 from the companyMIsault20 beginning of February, when the supply company’s plane was today2, landed at Salvador’s international airport to and after being inspected, about 595 kilograms of cocaine were found hidden on the aircraft fuselage.
From the seizure, the Federal Police organization was able to identify a manufacturing structure, composed of components and auxiliary components (responsible for the fuse of the aircraft to pack), carriers (responsible for packaging) flight) and money changer (responsible for for the group’s financial transactions).
The Brazilian Justice also decreed measures of seizure, seizure of properties and freezing of values in bank accounts used by the suspects.
On January 27, 2021, businessman João Loureiro took off from Tires Municipal Airport, in Cascais, heading to Brazil, having landed at Salvador airport, in the state of Bahia, and later, took off from Salvador to Jundiaí airport, in State of São Paulo, where it was parked for about a week.
The Falcon 900 took off after Jundiaí and, during the flight, the commander of mechanical machines, having requested a rescue technique from the aircraft.
According to Omni’s flight manifest, to which Lusa had access, on the trip from Jundiaí to Salvador, carried out on February 6, 2021, businessmen João Loureiro and Mansur Herédia, of Spanish nationality, were on board as passengers. , whose whereabouts are uncertain.
In April last year, Brazilian authorities ruled out any connection by lawyer João Loureiro to the case of cocaine trafficking on a plane.